Categories not shown on sidebar

As noted in the comments the issue here is that the sidebar was calling the_category(), which displays only the current category, rather than listing all categories. An even more “WP way” approach is to make the sidebar dynamic. That way, you can use widgets rather than hard-coding what appears in the sidebar. WP has a … Read more

Putting a URL, for a preview, in a side bar

Simply placing a url isn’t going to embed a webpage within a webpage. You could use an iframe. <iframe src=”http://yoururl”></iframe> To display the page content from that url. You could also capture the page via php and scrape it for the information you need but you would have to create a custom widget for this. … Read more

How do I load my site without the side bars? This is for an app

Do you have access to the theme files? If so, try replacing <?php get_sidebar() ?>; with this: <?php if( stristr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],’android’) === FALSE ) { get_sidebar(); } ?> Otherwise, what about access to the theme’s javascript file? var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); var isAndroid = ua.indexOf(“android”) > -1; if(isAndroid) { // Do something! // Perhaps target the … Read more

Subpages menu on sidebar plus widgets

If I’m understainding you correctly, you’ve hardcoded the wp_list_pages() function in to the widgetized area of the theme’s sidebar, and then, when you add a widget using WordPress’ back end Appearance->Widgets then you no longer see the output of the wp_list_pages() function? If that’s the case, then I think we’ve found your problem. If code … Read more